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Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Taiwan’s opposition chief Cheng Li-wun at the moment in Beijing. Cheng is the primary Kuomintang chairwoman to go to China prior to now decade. The delegation visited Jiangsu province and Shanghai earlier than arriving within the capital.

Xi as opposition chief: «Common want for peace and cooperation»

«Our compatriots on each side» of the Taiwan Strait «are each Chinese, and we’d like peace, improvement, communication and cooperation. This is a standard want.” The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, said this to the leader of the main opposition party in Taiwan, Cheng Li-wun, number one of the Kuomintang (KMT), during the meeting in Beijing. Xi – reports the ‘South China Morning Post’ – expressed full confidence in the fact that the people of both countries will get closer and unite. “The historical trend of compatriots on both sides of the Strait coming together and uniting will not change, this is a certainty of history, and we are fully confident of it,” Xi said at the beginning of his face-to-face meeting with Cheng.

Opposition leader to Xi: «Let’s collaborate to avoid war»

China and Taiwan should work together to “keep away from battle.” This was stated by the opposition leader of the democratic island to Chinese President Xi Jinping during the meeting in Beijing. “Both sides should avoid political confrontation and seek a systemic solution to prevent and avoid war, so that the Taiwan Strait can become a model of peaceful conflict resolution in the world,” Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun told Xi.

President Taiwan: Beijing threats compromise peace

“China’s incessant gray zone harassment and military threats in the Taiwan Strait and the surrounding island chain have seriously undermined the peace and stability of the region.” Lai Ching-te, president of Taiwan, wrote it on social media, as reported by AFP. The post comes on the day that Chinese President Xi Jinping met Cheng Li-wun, the leader of the Kuomintang, Taiwan’s main opposition party, in Beijing.

Furthermore, today marks the 47th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act which, as Lai writes on social media, “has lengthy been a milestone in relations between Taiwan and the United States”. “I am confident that our strong collaboration – spanning the fields of security, trade, technology and many others – will continue to stimulate innovation and contribute to safeguarding peace in the region,” wrote the Taiwanese president.